Sprint Laying Off More Than 800 Employees In Kansas City Area

Sprint Corp. is laying off more than 800 employees at its Overland Park headquarters.

The telecommunications company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act, or WARN, notice with the state of Kansas late Friday. The firm said it's letting go a total of 829 workers.

Overland Park based telecommunications corporation Sprint will lay off 829 employees this year as part of cost-cutting measures.

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Sprint spokesperson Michelle Boyd says the layoffs are part of the company's $2.5 billion plan to cut operating costs over the next three months.

"Unfortunately, as we've said over the past several months, the effort to reduce our costs would impact all areas of our business, including jobs," Boyd said in a statement. "We value and support our employees and are committed to assisting them through this transition."

Sprint already parted ways with 195 employees in 2015, according to the Kansas City Business Journal. The 829 employees affected by the layoffs will receive full severance packages. If Sprint lets more employees go after Jan. 30, they will only receive half the current severance benefits.

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Sprint Corp. announced Monday that it would layoff at least 2,000 employees.

The cuts, which are expected to save Sprint around $400 million, are part of an aggressive cost-cutting package introduced by CEO Marcelo Claure, a Bolivian businessman who took over from ousted CEO Dan Hesse in August.

“The Sprint brand was weak," Claure told investors during an earnings call Monday. "We had no clear value proposition for consumers. The measure of our own customer’s willingness to recommend Sprint was the lowest among the four big wireless carriers.”

Sprint will move to cut up to $2.5 billion in operating costs over the next six months, according to the Wall Street Journal.

TheJournal obtained an email detailing the move from the Overland Park-based telecommunications company's CFO Tarek Robbiati Thursday. So far, the company hasn't announced how they plan to cut the money, but layoffs are likely.